I was fortunate enough to work in an exceptional team during this project, and I experienced what can happen when an ambitious group of students gets together. Everyone offered different skills, and together we […]

This week, I contributed very little to the project. I attended our weekly meeting with the Engineers and helped discuss the work that remains for their project. I will work on the Final Binder every day until 12/12.

This week, I focused on reviewing and critiquing the engineers’ Preliminary Design Document. Although this is not required, reading their report gave me more insight about the engineers’ project. It has been difficult to get an idea of what they’ve been doing otherwise. I will use this information to complete the documents that we will use in our…[Read more]

This week I was unable to attend our weekly meeting with the Engineers. However, I did continue to review the Engineers’ documentation to complete our own documentation and help them with their final report submission.

This week, I began reading through the documentation the Engineers have completed so far. I am using their documentation to create our Scope Document. Hana and I were unable to work with the Engineers during their initial design planning, so now I am creating our Scope Document based off of the decisions they made earlier in the semester. It would…[Read more]

This week, I helped draft our project budget. I found an app that the engineers are now using to track their hours. They can export their hours at the end of each week. This way, we can better gauge what the engineers are doing and how much time they are spending on the project. This data can help us with scheduling in the future. I also attended…[Read more]

This week, Hana and I spoke with Courtney. We discussed some issues we’ve been experiencing with the engineers, namely that we created a schedule with them, and then they didn’t follow through with it. I planned to meet all of the engineers on Monday to discuss the scope document, project charter, etc., but only one of them showed up. Then I tried…[Read more]

Overall, our team made incredible progress this week. The engineers were most concerned about their Critical Design Review, during which they needed to present their progress to their Faculty Advisor. The Review took place on Friday, 10/14. During our weekly meeting (which took place before the Review), I helped the engineers focus on what exactly…[Read more]

This week, Mo and I spoke with Courtney about our project’s progress. I explained that progress has been slow and disjointed. Courtney told us to update our communication plan, and she suggested that we continue to stress that we are a valuable resource to our engineers. So far, only one engineer seems to appreciate our help. Hana and I met with 2…[Read more]

This week, I mainly focused on drafting the Scope Document and editing the Communication Plan. It was difficult to write the Scope Document because each engineer understood their project differently. I had to ask a lot of questions in our GroupMe chat, which required a lot of time and gave few results. One issue with the GroupMe chat was that only…[Read more]